On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:33:48 +0000
Oscar Corte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I've been reading about the boot process and the inittab file. So far I
> understand about the fields separated by “:”, etc.
>
> At some point my inittab file contains :
>
> # What to do in single-user mode.
> ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
>
> Could somebody give me a hint about what does the “~~” means at the 'id'
> field?
>
> All I know is that this sign (~) is a reference to the user's home directory
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers
>From 'man inittab':
An entry in the inittab file has the following format:
id:runlevels:action:process
Lines beginning with ‘#’ are ignored.
id is a unique sequence of 1-4 characters which identifies an entry
in inittab (for versions of
sysvinit compiled with the old libc5 (< 5.2.18) or a.out
libraries the limit is 2 characters).
So it seems that the particular value of the field is unimportant, and
~~ doesn't necessarily mean anything special. Caveat: I'm no expert on
this stuff, and I may be completely wrong.
> Oscar
Celejar
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